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If you want to argue against inequality, make that argument on its own merit without hijacking climate change and using it as a stalking horse. Climate change
by api 1y ago
If you want to argue against inequality, make that argument on its own merit without hijacking climate change and using it as a stalking horse.
Climate change is its own problem. Physics doesn’t care what our gini coefficient is. A more equal society that emits too much carbon still has this problem.
A decarbonized society powered by renewable and nuclear energy could still have too much inequality.
- paulryanrogers 1y agoUntil democracy is fixed I don't think these problems can be disconnected. But I'll admit that even an equal society could barrel toward its own destruction. I just think equal societies are less likely to, because all our livelihoods would be on the line. None could deny the problem and strong arm the government to ignore it--for the short term benefit of the few at the top.
- api 1y agoI think a more equal society would, if it were using fossil fuels, emit more carbon. A more equals society would have fewer people in poverty. It would have more active services for people who need them. All that represents a lower entropy state. Lower entropy states require more external energy input to maintain, not less. Allowing vast numbers of people to rot in squalor while a few rich people live it up is a lower energy higher entropy state. Individual rich people may use crazy amounts of energy but there are not many of them. Bezos’ jet consumes a tiny fraction of the power required to provide continuous modern health care to everyone, for example.